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Mojo10/27/08
10/27/08
GOP holds final rally before vote
Republicans held a final rally before voting begins today, gathering at the Grill restaurant in Charleston to hear from both statewide and federal candidates. Top photo, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito thanks supporters and urges them to vote on Tuesday.Middle left, Russ Weeks, candidate for governor, chides Gov. Joe Manchin for supporting Barack Obama even in light of Obama's newly uncovered promise to bankrupt the coal industry. Middle right, attorney general candidate Dan Greear tells attendees he is close to victory on Tuesday. Bottom photo, Supreme Court hopeful Beth Walker talks about the importance of the court race. The event was organized by Ben Beakes, state director for the McCain campaign in West Virginia. Also speaking were U.S. Senate candidate Jay Wolfe, secretary of state candidate Charles Minimah, and Marty Gearheart, candidate for Congress in the 3rd District. State GOP Chairman Doug McKinney and his wife, Sue, were also on hand, as were several candidates for local office. "If they don't conform and work within a structure, then it would make it very difficult to even put one of these plants online... If you go outside of that boundary line, if you're not willing to conform to work within it, then you shouldn't be in the business of producing coal to provide energy." -- Gov. Joe Manchin agreeing with Obama on coal plant penalties.
Manchin defends, agrees with Obama
Gov. Joe Manchin on Monday not only defended Barack Obama's controversial comments about bankrupting the coal industry, he actually agreed that coal plants that do not conform to cap and trade or other new emission standards "shouldn't be in the business of producing coal..."Manchin's comments are contained in the raw footage of an interview he did with WSAZ just prior to doing a remote interview with CNBC. You can watch the amazing interview here, and click on the "raw interview" link.Manchin claimed several times that the comments by Obama have been taken out of context (he actually said "out of contents"), eventhough a reading of the full text does not indicate as much. But even so, Manchin went on to defend Obama's notion that severe penalties should be levied against coal plants that do not conform to strict emission standards, saying failure to do so "would make it very difficult" to put a plant online.
(Press Release) According to turnout numbers reported by each county in West Virginia, early voting is steadily increasing in popularity since its inception in 2002. Approximately 154,000 voters took More than 150,000 early votes cast in WV election
BETTY IRELAND
advantage of no-excuse early voting for the 2008 General Election, compared to 126,500 early voters in the 2004 General Election, which was the previous record. “Early voting is steadily increasing in popularity,” Secretary of State Betty Ireland said. “It has proven to be a great service to our citizens.”
Kanawha County had the largest number of early voters with just under 16,000. Other high turnouts occurred in Berkeley County (approx. 11,000), Wood County (just under 9,500), and Cabell (approx. 7,500).Additionally, on the eve of Election Day, just over 13,000 absentee ballots had been voted and submitted.Early voting turnout and absentee voting numbers as a percent of the total trended fairly much along party registration lines in the state: Democrats 58%; Republicans 32%; No Party/Other 10%. Data shows that the Mountain Party had 81 persons early vote and vote absentee.“We expect these early voting numbers to presage a high turnout for Election Day. So be prepared for a longer than usual wait at the polls, said Ireland. “Use your time in line to take the opportunity to chat with your neighbors or meet someone from your neighborhood you do not know. But the important thing is to make your voice heard – get out and vote no matter how long it takes.”Polls open for in-precinct voting Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. Go to www.WVvotes.com to check where your polling place is, or call your county clerk.The polls might be right, but here's why they might not be
If the polls are to be believed, Barack Obama will be elected president of the United States today.There is virtually not a poll in the land predicting a victory for John McCain. Can all these polls really be wrong?Of course they can. What many casual observers do not realize is that polling is every bit as much art as science. After pollsters conduct the "scientific" part of polling -- gathering raw data from phone calls around the nation -- they set to work on the "art" of "weighting" the data, that is, figuring out where sampling was too low or too high, where not enough Democrats or Republicans were contacted, or where likely voters were under-represented based on historic turnout in recent elections.I have personally sat and watched many a pollster "weight" poll data to achieve a desired result. Often, they do so almost unconsciously, not because they want to mislead anyone, but because they want to keep a particular candidate or voting population encouraged. So they justify in their minds why they are subtracting data here and adding it there, because their initial results don't match what they believe should be true.This year, there have been roughly 160 national polls conducted in the presidential race in the past six weeks, compared to about half as many four years ago. Why the proliferation of polls? Because polling is a lucrative business, and there is no shortage of media entities, think tanks, universities and other groups and organizations increasingly anxious to attach their names to a poll for the publicity and attention received by announcing new results.Going into today's election, Obama might lead them all, but the margins vary widely. Gallup says Obama leads by 11, Hotline and IBD say it's by 5. More importantly, almost all the battleground states are well within the margin of error. So can McCain win today? Without a doubt. 
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